“If I’m here past Friday, which I’m expecting to be, which will be great, I’m looking forward to seeing what we can achieve at the end of the season.

“Me and the manager have had a conversation over the phone, as well as two one-hour meetings over the last couple of weeks.

“We’re both aware of the situation. (Monday) was massive for me that, even though there is speculation, he still trusts and believes in me to put me into such a massive game, a game where he didn’t need to change anything.

“For me, over the last four or five years we’ve worked together, that is probably the biggest thing he has done for me.

Danny Rose thanked Mauricio Pochettino for picking him against Manchester United (Nick Potts/PA)

“I have to thank him for that. I have to thank because it would have been easy for him not to play me given the speculation that is going around.”

Rose had a difficult start in his first match since the third-place play-off in Russia and nearly gave United a goal with a wayward backpass, but he improved as the match went on.

“It was amazing,” he added. “I was nervous to see if I was going to be in the squad and I really didn’t see myself playing.

“I was so shocked in the meeting before we arrived. I thought there was going to be a change but never did I think that it was going to be me coming in.

“It was a massive shock. I’m over the moon that I’m able to be part of this win.